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Logitech Z506 5.1 Surround Sound Speakers Are Your Musical Conquest Deal of the Day

Years ago, before Princess Girlfriend came and snatched me from the cesspool of singledom, I was broke, and there was a girl I wanted to impress enough that sleeping with me seemed like a excellent idea. Wily hunters set traps, in which they employ some sort of food for bait, and utilize animal calls. My…

Tech News Natt Garun

Sprint’s New 3G/4G Data Plans Offer More Bang for Your Buck

Sprint recently cancelled unlimited data for 4G hotspots, which sucked, but wasn’t entirely shocking. Now they’ve announced new pricing plans for hotspots, tablets, laptops and dongles, offering more bandwidth than the competition at the same $50 and $80 monthly prices. $50 will net you six gigabytes of data every month while $80 will get you…

Tech News Adrian Covert

24-Hours On a Navy Supercarrier Video Will Provoke Multiple Airplane Lover Nerdgasms

This video has it all: timelapses, dramatic photography and tons of aircraft porn. It’s a typical day on the USS Carl Vinson, the third of the United States Navy Nimitz-class nuclear supercarriers. Yeah, it’s the carrier from that NCAA basketball game. The USS Carl Vinson, a behemoth that displaces 101,300 long tons of water and…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Gizmodo’s Joe Brown on Bloomberg News

Gizmodo’s Joe Brown joined Bloomberg News on November 14, 2011 to talk about the Kindle Fire. Watch the clip above! For media requests, contact Kevin Prince at [email protected].

Commerce Scott Kidder

The Best Kindle Fire Covers So Far

The Kindle Fire’s not even a day old, but Amazon’s already pretty packed full of covers and sleeves. And with the Fire shipping today—a day early—we’ve rounded up some of the best to fit your particular needs. Standard Issue The official Amazon cover for the Kindle Fire is a simple nylon zip sleeve that comes…

Commerce Kyle Wagner

Today Is Your Last Chance to Get Apple Care If You Preordered Your iPhone

Did you pre-order your new iPhone 4S? Did you skip AppleCare+? Well, today is your last chance to buy coverage. And because Apple has a new no-freebies replacement policy now, it might come in really handy. Your chance to buy coverage ends today, November 14. It’s not available online. You have to call in or…

Tech News Mat Honan

iTunes Match Temporarily Overwhelmed by Huge Demand

iTunes Match is finally here, although it looks like your months-long wait might be extended a bit. Turns out that due to excessive demand, Apple is temporarily blocking new registrations. https://gizmodo.com/itunes-match-is-live-at-long-last-5859316 When we tried to sign up for iTunes Match we were prompted with the error above, informing us that new iTunes Match subscriptions are…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Acoustical Ruler App Measures Distances With Your iPhone Like a Submarine

Thanks to a new app that uses the same approach as submarines for measuring distance, you can now add ‘semi-reliable tape measure’ to the list of things your iOS devices can do. Acoustical Ruler is available from the iTunes App Store for just a buck, and uses simple sonar techniques to measure distances with a…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

iTunes Match Is Live, At Long Last

At last, at long last, iTunes Match has gone live, giving you access to your music, in the cloud, without you ever having to upload a thing. All download, no upload sounds like a formula for success. https://gizmodo.com/itunes-match-doesnt-actually-stream-music-5835829 In case you need a little refresher, iTunes Match works like this: You buy the $25 a…

Tech News Brent Rose

Did This Terrifying Robot Kitty Helmet Just Wink at Me?

So much for getting a good night’s sleep tonight. Researchers at the Tokyo Metropolitan University have created this disturbing robot cat mask that’s able to mimic the movements of the wearer’s eyes and mouth using a non-contact interface to measure the movements of the muscles in their face. The masks worn by people dressed as…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Colleges and Universities Are Going on a .XXX Domain Shopping Spree

Yes, Colleges and Universities are snapping up .XXX Domains left and right. But no, they’re not aspiring to be future AVN award winners. Instead, schools like Missouri and Washington University are buying up domains like missouri.xxx and washu.xxx to protect their names. https://gizmodo.com/icann-approves-xxx-domains-5783484 Because there are no trademark or copyright protections for domain names, anyone…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Pogoplug Cloud Floats Free Online Storage

The storage wars are on. Pogoplug launched a new online storage service today, Pogoplug Cloud, with 5GB of free storage and (surprise!) the option to buy more. Pogoplug Cloud lets you upload files directly form your mobile devices, share through email, Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ and stream HD video, photos and audio to your phone.…

Tech News Mat Honan

The Santa Claw at Gizmodo Gallery

Not gonna be in New York for Gizmodo Gallery? We’ve teamed up with the Real Art Design Group to bring the biggest claw game in the world to New York. But if you want to play it, stay home. https://gizmodo.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-gizmodo-gallery-2011-5857474 The Santa Claw is the Colossus of claw machines. The 2000-pound beast makes that toy…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Welcome to the BlackBerry Holiday Hall of Fame

How’s that song go again? Deck the halls with boughs of BlackBerry. Fa la la la la la? That sounds about right… Well, expect hear that version a lot over the next few months, because BlackBerry has released a stunning array of phones for the holiday season. Which is why, over the next few weeks,…

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The iPhone 4S Battery Problem Is Probably Not Because of Faulty Hardware

The iPhone 4S battery problems continue! Even a software update that was supposed to fix the problem couldn’t fix the problem. So what’s going on? Is it a software bug? Maybe. A hardware flaw? Probably not. https://gizmodo.com/whats-wrong-with-apples-ios-5-0-1-update-5858613 ZDNet had an app developer test out two different iPhone 4S devices, one with the battery problem—rapid drop…

Tech News Casey Chan

Ai Wei Wei’s Forever Bicycles Is Like Looking into a Two-Wheeled Infinity Mirror

Ai Wei Wei, arguably China’s most famous artist, has a new exhibit in Taiwan right now. The piece you see, called Forever Bicycles, features thousands of bicycles welded together to stunning visual effect. https://gizmodo.com/the-tate-moderns-new-art-installation-100-million-hand-5662788 Forever Bicycles is a reflection of Ai Wei Wei’s perception of the rapid pace of China’s social change. The piece is…

Tech News Brent Rose

PC Gamers, Get Out Your Penis Rulers: The Next 3DMark Is Coming

Futuremark, arbiter of all synthetic benchmarks that upend message boards and LAN party envies around the globe, is ready to make you feel bad about your rig all over again: 3DMark for Windows 8. But there’s a twist! Since Windows 8 wants to french kiss both tablets and traditional computers, the new 3DMark (landing next…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Warren Buffett Just Made an $11 Billion Bet on IBM

Warren Buffett popped up on CNBC this morning to talk about this and that and how his investment firm Berkshire Hathaway casually dropped $10.7 billion to become IBM’s largest shareholder, and…waaaaaaaaaaaaaait…WHOA. Buffett acquired 64 million shares of Big Blue, which is good for 5.5 percent of the company. According to AllThingsD, the next biggest shareholder,…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Projector Phone: Talk and Touch at the Same Time (If You Work in a Dark Cave)

Unless you’re using a Bluetooth headset or their speakerphone, you can’t really operate a touchscreen smartphone while it’s held to your ear during a call. So this prototype once again merges a phone with a pico projector to give you full access to your device during a call, as well as the device of the…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Meet AMD’s New History-Making, 16-Core Beast

Your quad-core computer doesn’t seem so great anymore now, does it, champ? AMD’s Opteron 6200 boasts 16 cores running at up to 2.6 GHz each. That is a lot of number crunching—and the first x86 with 16 cores. Sadly, the monster isn’t really made for you. AMD’s going after server farms with the 16-headed Opteron—places…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Logitech Z506 5.1 Surround Sound Speakers Are Your Musical Conquest Deal of the Day

Sprint’s New 3G/4G Data Plans Offer More Bang for Your Buck

24-Hours On a Navy Supercarrier Video Will Provoke Multiple Airplane Lover Nerdgasms

Gizmodo’s Joe Brown on Bloomberg News

The Best Kindle Fire Covers So Far

Today Is Your Last Chance to Get Apple Care If You Preordered Your iPhone

iTunes Match Temporarily Overwhelmed by Huge Demand

Acoustical Ruler App Measures Distances With Your iPhone Like a Submarine

iTunes Match Is Live, At Long Last

Did This Terrifying Robot Kitty Helmet Just Wink at Me?

Colleges and Universities Are Going on a .XXX Domain Shopping Spree

Pogoplug Cloud Floats Free Online Storage

The Santa Claw at Gizmodo Gallery

Welcome to the BlackBerry Holiday Hall of Fame

The iPhone 4S Battery Problem Is Probably Not Because of Faulty Hardware

Ai Wei Wei’s Forever Bicycles Is Like Looking into a Two-Wheeled Infinity Mirror

PC Gamers, Get Out Your Penis Rulers: The Next 3DMark Is Coming

Warren Buffett Just Made an $11 Billion Bet on IBM

Projector Phone: Talk and Touch at the Same Time (If You Work in a Dark Cave)

Meet AMD’s New History-Making, 16-Core Beast

Tesla Goes Ahead and Admits Its Robotaxis Are Sometimes Fully Human-Controlled

School Forced to Replace Toilets After Kids Flush Vapes

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The Curtain Has Closed on Meta’s Movie Rating-Inspired Content Filters

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